Eight year-old Alex is learning to ride a horse. The trainer says that a horse ages...

 

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Eight year-old Alex is learning to ride a horse. The trainer says that a horse ages 5 years for every 2 human years. The horse is now 50 years old in human years. a. Calculate the age of the horse, in human years, if Alex is 8 years old. b. How old would the horse be in human years if Alex was 6 years old? c. Complete the table below Alex's Age Horse's Age 8 6 d. Graph the information from the table on the coordinate plane, be sure to give the graph a title and label all axes. e. At what point does the graph touch the y-axis? f. What does this information represent? g. How old was the horse in human years, when Alex was born? h. If Alex were 12 years old, how old would the horse be in human years, when Alex was born? Eight year-old Alex is learning to ride a horse. The trainer says that a horse ages 5 years for every 2 human years. The horse is now 50 years old in human years. a. Calculate the age of the horse, in human years, if Alex is 8 years old. b. How old would the horse be in human years if Alex was 6 years old? c. Complete the table below Alex's Age Horse's Age 8 6 d. Graph the information from the table on the coordinate plane, be sure to give the graph a title and label all axes. e. At what point does the graph touch the y-axis? f. What does this information represent? g. How old was the horse in human years, when Alex was born? h. If Alex were 12 years old, how old would the horse be in human years, when Alex was born?